Some $6 million will be given to the Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect research project over four years. The funding comes from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. “The region we’re studying includes the mineral-rich areas around Flin Flon and Thompson, Man., and the gold-bearing rocks of northern Saskatchewan,” said Zoltan Hajnal of the University of Saskatchewan. “We ‘re probing the earth’s solid outer shell to a depth of 100 km.” He jointly leads the study with John Lewry of the University of Regina.
Hajnal also notes that the research might “yield information on the formation of kimberlite pipes and assist in diamond exploration.”
The Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect is part of the Lithoprobe project, under which the earth’s crust in all regions of the country is being studied.
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